She’s a Liberal twat no than thanks!
Ouch.
The visuals are breathtaking, as already shown by the trailers.
ScarJo is trying, you can tell that she wants this to be her new franchise.
It's edited quite nicely, it's got a (simple) story, and it's coherent.
So where did it go wrong?
One of the problems is that it takes away all of the philosophical depth from the original.
Well, that means you can still enjoy it from a simple action flick perspective, right?
Good luck with that.
This film has such a ridiculous amount of exposition, that it badly hurts the enjoyment of the film.
Many sequences consist of characters just talking to each other, and explaining the plot.
Things are definitely shown, but then the filmmakers don't think we're able to put two and two together, and hence add another explanatory scene.
As a result of that, the film doesn't take its time to develop the characters, meaning you won't care about them.
Top it off with an awful performance from Juliette Binoche, and you have your modern style over substance film.
3.5/10
loved this, really well directed, very stylish, great soundtrack
It's refreshing to see an original storyline for this genre.
Have to say. The movie is better than i expected and is better than the ratings it got. The screencast was new and very appealing. Wont say its really scary but it i was kinda in the zone while watching. somehow i was hooked to the screen. Defently worth a watch.
Great film, almost flawless however there were couple of core story components that were missing, found in the original Kipling stories. Albeit, they did a fantastic job considering the difficulties that must of been encountered trying to create a film like this with nothing more than a single child actor. Whether or not any actual Jungle locations were used or whether it was a complete studio production is so difficult to spot that it really did not matter. 10/10.
